Het Spoor Terug: 'More durable than snow: the playgrounds of Aldo van Eyck'

The aluminum climbing dome, the horizontal bars and the concrete sandpit: the playground equipment of the architect and designer Aldo van Eyck adorned Amsterdam until the late 1980s.

Numerous post-war children grew up with it and got bruised by it. In total, Van Eyck designed more than 700 so-called iconic playgrounds. Documentary maker Tjitske Mussche made for the programme Het Spoor Terug: 'More durable than snow: the playgrounds of Aldo van Eyck'.

In this documentary Herman Hertzberger also speaks about his mentor Aldo van Eyck.

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Text: Radio 1